Syntactic Recoverability of Null Arguments 9780773562295
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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 SYNTACTIC THEORY AND NULL ARGUMENTS
1.0. Introduction
1.1. Variation and Learnability
1.1.1. The Government and Binding Framework
1.2. Null Arguments
1.2.1. Previous Analyses
1.2.2. Zero-Topic Languages
1.2.3. A Theory of pro
1.3. On Empty Categories
1.4. Summary
2 NULL ARGUMENTS IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES
2.0. Introduction
2.1. A Generalization
2.2. Pro and Clitics
2.2.1. On pro
2.2.2. On Agreement
2.2.3. Subject Clitics and Object Clitics
2.2.4. Base Generation of Clitics
2.2.5. Case and θ-Role
2.3. On the Non-Existence of the Null Subject Parameter
2.4. Free Inversion
2.5. Causatives
2.6. Summary
3 ON CLITIC DOUBLING
3.0. Introduction
3.1. Subject Doubling
3.1.1. Northern Italian Dialects
3.1.2. Previous Analyses
3.1.3. French Dialects
3.1.4. Analysis
3.2. Object Doubling and Subject Doubling
3.2.1. Structures
3.2.2. Case Assignment
3.3. Extractions
3.3.1. The Facts
3.3.2. Summary
3.3.3. Previous Accounts
3.3.4. C-Chains
3.4. A Note on Complex Inversion
3.5. A Note on Reflexive se
3.6. Summary
4 CLITICS AND AGREEMENT MARKERS
4.0. Introduction
4.1. Subject Cliticization
4.1.1. Internal Structure of INFL
4.1.2. Verb Raising or INFL Lowering?
4.1.3. Coordination
4.2. Agreement Markers vs. Clitics
4.2.1. Coordination
4.2.2. Doubling
4.2.3. Extractions
4.2.4. Obligatoriness
4.2.5. Morphology
4.2.6. Conclusion
4.3. Historical Speculations
4.4. Summary
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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